viii, 316 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the States of "theory" and the future of history and art / David Carroll -- Are we being historical yet? / Carolyn Porter -- Some statements and truisms about neo-logisms, newisms, postisms, parasitisms, and other small seismisms / Jacques Derrida -- History beyond social theory / Lynn Hunt -- Machiavelli : history, politics, discourse / Claude Lefort -- Spatial equivalents : postmodern architecture and the world system / Fredric Jameson -- Finite history / Jean-Luc Nancy -- The blink of an eye / Rosalind E. Krauss -- The aesthetic and the imaginary / Wolfgang Iser -- The semiotic desire for the natural sign : poetic uses and political abuses / Murray Krieger -- Toward a model for the history of theater /Juan Villegas -- Face to face : Plato's Protagoras as a model for collective research in the humanities / J. Hillis Miller -- After the sublime : the State of aesthetics / Jean-Franc̜ois Lyotard

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